| Equipment: | 1908: Twelve miles of 35# T-rails, a 26-ton and a 30-ton Mogul locomotive, eighteen logging cars, twenty-eight mules, two horses, twenty work steers, tents, boarding house at camp, etc |
| History: | New South Lumber were described as manufacturers of yellow pine lumber at Flanagan in Rusk County in 1905 according to the Reference Book of the Lumbermen's Credit Association, January 1905 and again in 1907.
The Sabine River Lumber & Logging Co, in November, 1908, executed a Deed of Trust to New South Lumber Company in order to refinance with New South Lumber, for $100,000 the old Flanagan sawmill plant at Flanagan, Rusk County. West Texas Bank & Trust Co held the old loan, dated earlier that year. The Deed of Trust describes the sawmill as a right-hand circular sawmill of 50,000 feet daily capacity. It had a planing mill, an electric light set, and forty tenant houses. The sawmill site was located on fifty acres owned by Webster Flanagan and wife.
The sawmill plant used a steam logging tram road: twelve miles of 35# T-rails, a 26-ton and a 30-ton Mogul locomotive (both 9-wheelers), eighteen logging cars, twenty-eight mules, two horses, twenty work steers, tents, boarding house at camp, etc.
Even small lumber-plant operations utilized tramroads. The Dealy Lumber Company used a tramroad to move the rough-cut lumber from the Hendricks Lake sawmill to its planing mill at Flanagan, two miles away. According to a Rusk County deed of trust record, the tram equipment consisted of a wooden tram, a Shay engine, three logging cars, and ten lumber cars. Keeling reports that the Sabine River Lumber & Logging Company was operating two miels of tram road from Flanagan to Felicia. |